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More Cool Macro Ideas

To keep your excitement about macros going, I want to give you some ideas for moving forward with them, and show you a few more code snippets to test in your VSMacros module. Because you created a Try...Catch block, you could create macros for

• If...Then...Else blocks

• For...Next loops

• Variable declarations

• While Loops

Adding an Imports or Using Statement

Almost all classes I write use the System.Data.SqlClient namespace, and maybe the System.IO namespace or System.XML namespace. To add text to the top of your file, you can use the StartOfDocument method, as in Listing 16.7.

Listing 16.7. Adding Imports/Using Statements to Class Files

Sub StartOfDocumentExample() Dim txt As TextSelection = DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection With ...